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energy and enterprise received higher or surer rewards, or 

 when deeper misfortune and unhappiness rested upon the 

 indiflferent, the lazy, and the doubting. The husbandman's 

 vocation forms no exception to the statement, " Life is active, 

 life is earnest," and let us all meet its duties, seeking knowl- 

 edge wherever it is to be found. 



